Sofia Coppola has big plans for the 25th anniversary of her directorial debut “The Virgin Suicides.”

The 2000 feature, which premiered at Cannes, cemented Coppola as the director for young female angst. Kirsten Dunst led the film adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’ 1993 novel that centers on the five fictional Lisbon sisters who kill themselves one by one. Kathleen Turner and James Woods play their overprotective, religious parents; Dunst stars as middle sister Lux. The film, despite grossing just under $5 million in the U.S. against a $9 million budget, later became of a cult classic that was synonymous with the melancholic realization that teenage longing and ennui can extend into adulthood.

Coppola told ELLE that she and frequent collaborator Dunst have plans to mark the 25th anniversary of “The Virgin Suicides.” (Dunst and Coppola have reunited on features “Marie Antoinette” and “The Beguiled.”)

“I think Kirsten [Dunst] and I will plan to do some screenings or something around it,” Coppola said of “The Virgin Suicides” turning 25. “I’ve always had a connection to that time in life; it is something that I’m drawn to…so much of my work has been around young women growing up, and the fact that that can still connect with people makes me happy.”

Coppola previously said in the film’s official production notes back in 2000 that Eugenides’ novel inspired her to try directing.

“I really didn’t know I wanted to be a director until I read ‘The Virgin Suicides’ and saw so clearly how it had to be done,” Coppola said. “I immediately saw the central story as being about what distance and time and memory do to you, and about the extraordinary power of the unfathomable. It’s about the big themes in life: about mortality and obsession and love.”

Coppola later told Entertainment Weekly in 2018 that she wanted to create a new “aesthetic” onscreen because of the novel.

“There wasn’t much poetic filmmaking that spoke to me as a girl and a young woman, and also treated [us] with respect I felt that audience deserved,” Coppola said. “I love Jeffrey [Eugenides’] book and I felt like he really captured the mystery of that age, so it was the book that motivated me to want to make that film, but I didn’t really see that aesthetic [in other movies].”

She said that distributor Paramount Classics was stumped with how to market her vision for the film, though.

“It didn’t have much of a release,” Coppola said. “Paramount Classics didn’t really know what to do with it. They were afraid that girls were going to commit suicide if they saw it! It had a really small release. We made it for very little, so they didn’t have to do much to make it.”

She added after the film was restored in 4K with the Criterion Collection, “It made me happy when, about 10 years ago, people started telling me that their teenage daughters loved the movie. I was like, they weren’t even born then! How do they even know about it? I’m happy that it has had a second life, and it makes me glad that girls of other generations connect to it and find something in it. It didn’t have much of a life at the time it came out.”

And Coppola now has another film in the works after her 2023 biopic “Priscilla.” Coppola confirmed to ELLE that she is in the “early stages” of a new project, which she describes as “not formed yet,” though it will center on a female character.

“There’s someone that I’m fixated on,” she said. “I always love stories where you can relate to the women. I don’t feel like there are a lot of movies where I can relate to the women characters at this moment.”